My love, We have found each other Thirsty and we have Drunk up all the water and the Blood, We found each other Hungry And we bit each other As fire bites, Leaving wounds in us. But wait for me, Keep for me your sweetness. I will give you too A rose.
“Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That’s why it satisfies nobody.”
– Seneca
Confusion
A person who never learned to trust confuses
intimacy with intensity,
care with obsession,
and security with control.
“Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.”
Charles Lamb
“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play… it is war minus the shooting.”
– George Orwell
“There isn’t time – so brief is life – for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. there is only time for loving – & but an instant, so to speak, for that. “
Mark Twain, in a letter to Clara Spaulding, 20 August 1886.
“Culture arises and unfolds in and as play.”
– Johan Huizinga
“We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.”
Johann Wolfgang Van Goethe
“Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.” – Leonardo da Vinci
While no doubt this was written about form and art, there is a deeper meditation one could delve into on self and shadow and finding the shape of ones whole soul.
“As we play, we open ourselves to the exploration of our edges, always creating new adventures of self-exploration.”
– Judith-Annette Milburn